PROFESSIONAL PROFILE:

• Over 7 years of experience in Analysis, To - be processes, Configuration, Acceptance testing and Go-live support of SAP R/3 PP/ PP-PI modules. Implemented
• SAP in the following industries: Oil & Gas, Manufacturing, Pharmaceutical, and Food & Processing and involved two Full Life Cycle implementation in SAP PP/PP-PI modules
• Organization Structure: Configuring Company Code, Controlling Area, Plants, Maintenance Planning Plant, Purchasing Organization, Storage Locations, Sales Organization, Sales Area and their assignments to other respective organizational units.
• Master Data: Deep, hands-on experience with Material Masters, BOMs, Work Centers/Resources, Recipes/Routings and PRT’s.
• Demand Management: Make to Stock, Assemble-To-Order and Long-term Planning.
• MPS/MRP: Configured Plant for MRP, Basic vs. Lead-Time Scheduling, MRP Groups, Lot Size Methods, Planning and Scheduling Parameters, Dynamic Safety Stock, Consumption Mode, Planning Calendar, Exception Messages, Rescheduling, Reduction strategies, Start date in the Past.
• PP-PI: BOMs, Master Recipes, Production Versions, Confirmations and Process Orders. Use of PI messages/IDOCs for communication with ProPack MES system.
• Configuration of the full suite of PP-PI functionality for Process Orders.
• Configuration of PI-sheets (characteristic-based) for Shop Floor execution.
• QM & VC: Configuring and Customizing Quality Planning, Quality Assurance & Quality Control. Creating Material Variants, Providing Variant Configuration design solution and mapping necessary for VC Upload into SAP via custom interfaces.
• AII/OEM: Implemented Product Serialization Configured Central Number range management and local serial number range management and Perform Product Tracking and Authentication.
• Capacity Planning: Configuration and master data for Detailed Scheduling, Capacity Evaluation and Capacity Leveling, Long-Term Capacity Planning.
• Batch Management: Defined and Configured for Production/Process Orders, Interplant Stock Transfers, Subcontracting and Inventory Management. Have worked extensively with Batch Determination, Active Ingredient Management, Batch Derivation, Material/Quantity Calculation and Batch Classification.
• Planning Strategies: Make-to-Stock, Assemble-to-Order with Finite Scheduling.
• Subcontracting and External Processing with Scheduling Agreements/Purchase Orders and Source List. Configured “External Processing” for subcontracting within a production Routing.
• Inventory Management: Goods Receipt, Goods Issues, Back flushing, Physical Inventory Count.
• Production/Process Orders: Availability Checking, Shop Floor papers, Detailed Scheduling, Trigger Points for Rework, Confirmation with Time Events, Order Type parameters, Delivery to Stock. Configured Production Orders for automatic generation during Assembly Processing.
• Active Ingredient Management: Configuration for batch determination and Material/Quantity calculation using potency, and Proportional Units of Measure.
• Reporting. Extensive knowledge of tables and their relationships in PP/PP-PI applications (used extensively in development of specifications for custom programs and user exits.
• Integration: Knowledgeable of integration points among PP/PP-PI and MM.
• SAP Solution Manager: Heavy use of the Solution Manger tool to track all key project deliverables including Configuration, Functional/Technical Specifications, Process Flow Diagrams, Process Design Documents, and Key Decision documents.
• HP Quality Center (Mercury Test Center): Authored and executed Test Plans within the Mercury HP Quality Center Application.
• End User: Experienced in Post Implementation Production Support and the end-users using the RWD uPerform tool.
• LSMW: Programs written for Material Master mass-changes, BOM creation, Recipe Creation and Work Center mass-data loads.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

ERP Packages: ECC 6.0, SAP R/3 4.7, 4.6C

ERP Modules: SAP PP/PI

Project Management & Process Designing: ASAP Project Methodology.

Test Management Tool: Mercury Quality Center, HP Quality Center

Operating Systems: Windows 98/2000/NT/XP/Vista, UNIX, DOS, Macintosh

Office Software: MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Access

Programming Languages: BASIC, C, C++, HTML, Java, Javascript, MySQL, Scheme, Perl, CGI, Python

Other Tools: Acrobat, MATLAB, Mathematica, Eclipse, Subversion SVN, Test Director, WinRunner. QTP

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

SAP PP-PI, QM Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed As-Is business process from the subject matter experts (SMEs) team and explored the manufacturing operations/activities at shop floor, envisioned and map the TO-BE process for SAP PP implementation.
• Identified the gaps in the business process and abridged them with functionality in SAP system.
• Created As-Is and To-Be process flow using MS Visio.
• Conducted seminars for department head of manufacturing operations and department members about PP Master Data, SOP, Planned Independent Requirements (PIRs), MRP/MPS, and execution phase (Purchase Requisitions, Purchase Orders, Planned Orders, & Production Orders).
• Configured SAP PP settings for discrete manufacturing scenario as per the requirements of Business Blueprint
• Configured new material types based on business requirements for finished assembly, semi-finished assembly, raw material, and packaging material.
• Customized BOM and routing for different usages such as production, engineering, plant maintenance, SD, and costing.
• Defined work center categories, capacity categories, shift sequence, standard value keys, capacity and scheduling formulae.
• Collaborated with FICO team, to create activity types and cost center, and assigned them to work center to evaluate the product costing of the product.
• Customize control key for in-house production to address auto goods receipt, rework, milestone confirmation and quality inspection.
• Created new information structures, planning types, and macros as to address production planning process
• Maintained planning hierarchies and proportional factors, inactive and active versions of SOP, and transfer operational data from SOP to demand management.
• Configured demand management with planning without final assembly as planning strategy.
• Defined MRP controller, schedule margin key, detailed scheduling of planned orders and production orders, special procurement key, planning and rescheduling horizon.
• Defined number ranges for purchase requisitions, planned orders and production orders.
• Set up MRP run parameters for background job.
• Used user exit to establish a warning message if the header material has not been produced for the last three months.
• Successfully implemented the QM module with quality planning, inspections, digital signatures, audit trails, serialization and batch status management.
• Created test scripts, test cases, and test scenarios to facilitate various testing.
• Involved in integration testing phases, regression testing and conducted user-acceptance testing (UAT).
• Developed process flow diagrams, documents, user manuals, and trained end users on the system process flow
• Performed data analysis of the legacy system, data validation, and used LSMW to upload PP master data.

Confidential, Orange, CT

SAP PP Consultant

Environment: SAP R/3 4.6C

Responsibilities:

• Configured background jobs for MRP run and special procurement keys to take care of the planning and production issues. Ensuring that the total deliverables in shape.
• Improved Business Cycle in PP involving -MRP- Planned Orders-Production Orders-Order Settlement.
• Production order creation, release and confirmation and back flushing, shop floor. Dealt with Make to order and make to stock scenarios. Maintained Production orders, scheduling types and order types.
• Modification or doing enhancements in the current system thereby meeting user requirements by coordinating with development team.
• Documentation of test scripts, test cases and procedures. Worked on solving and creating TIR (Test Incident Reports) faced during the testing process.
• Prepared all end-user documents (simulation files and supporting word documents) for the team in the area of Receiving, Inventory Control.
• Member of Post Go-Live production support team helping users creating remedy tickets, monitoring and resolving issues in the area of PP.

Confidential, Cambridge, MA

SAP PP-PI, QM, AII/OER Consultant

Environment: SAP R/3 4.7

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Configuration and Implementation of SAP R/3 for PP/PI module.
• Implemented Make to stock production strategy for the company.
• Configured Material Master (MRP Views).
• Involved in creation and improvements of BOM.
• Configuration of capacity planner, planner groups, formulas, resources.
• Setting up of Master Recipes and assignment of Process Instructions to the phases.
• Planning methods such as single-item multilevel, single-item single level were implemented, generating planned orders.
• Converted Planned orders either into Process Order or Purchase requisition.
• Have hands on experience of Process Management i.e. control recipes, process messages, PI sheets.
• Configured Catalog, Inspection Methods and Inspection characteristics.
• Created Quality Inspection Plan’s and did results recording.
• Helped end users in resolving issues related to PP-PI module.
• Supported issues related to Master Data, Work Center, Recipes, Production Planning, MRP, and Production Control.
• Implemented AII/OER resource will work directly with the Product Serialization team and would cover all the aspects of system development life cycle
• Configuration / setup of Central Number range management and local serial number range management for Item, Case and pallets.
• Perform Product tracking and authentication.
• Master data setup in SAP AII and OER to support processes in Distribution Center Edgeware system
• Experience Covers QM blueprinting, realization, testing/validation, cutover and go-live activities.
• Involved in unit testing and integrating testing phase of the project.

Confidential, Exton, PA

SAP PP-PI, QM Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Full Life Cycle Implementation from designing to end user and production support.
• Manufactured scenarios in PP-PI for Make to Stock (MTS).
• Worked on Material Master, Resources, Master Recipe, and MRP, Converting Planned Orders, Release, Confirmations, Goods Movements and Cancellation.
• Involved in creating batch Management, Batch Determination, Batch Classification, Batch Strategies and Serialization.
• Defined the planning parameters like Planning Horizon, Planning Time Fence, maintained Safety Stock, Lot Sizing Procedures, and Rounding Profiles.
• Configured master recipes with quality Inspection Characteristics, Configured the inspection plan.
• Maintained and defined Scheduling Parameters, parameters for Basic Dates, scheduling parameters for Planned Orders. Defined Order types, order type dependent parameters, settlement type, status profile and control indicators.
• Defined Conversions for Planned Orders to Purchase Requisitions, and Purchase Orders.
• Worked together with Business Users for identifying and designing the various test scenarios and for creating detailed Test Cases and Test Scripts for Unit testing using Mercury Quality center.
• Worked on Control recipes simulation in Master Recipe, Control Recipe monitoring and reporting process message through PI sheet.
• Worked on process orders and Confirmation of process orders through process messages.
• Defined Control keys, Confirmation parameters based on different order types for various production orders.
• Trained process owners for Classes and Characters maintenance, material master for configurable material.
• Configured, Designed and Implemented Catalogs, Inspection Characteristics, Inspection Methods, Sample Determination, QM-Specific Data in Material Master and Dynamic Modification Rules
• Involved in the backlog teams in helping the end users with clearing the backlogs and understanding the business flow in the organization.
• Prepared documentation for knowledge transfer and trained key users. Monitored the helpdesk and resolved the issue/quarries for end users.

Confidential, Federal Way, WA

SAP PP-PI Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a PP Consultant, responsible for business process study, and configuration of PP module.
• Configured Make-to-Stock and Make-to-Order planning strategies.
• Configured Sales and operation planning(S&OP) for the product groups and transferred the plan to Demand management. Done setting for the background job for mass processing.
• Defined Conversion Rules for the Product groups. Created a planning type and macro for the flexible planning, maintained RCCP profile.
• Working knowledge in the Quality Center updating the defects and creating test plan.
• Configured and executed the shop floor activities including creation of orders, conversion of planned orders.
• Made test plan, and managed all the documents through solution manager.
• Working knowledge in I-Doc and EDI from Functional stand point.
• Worked on the settings of variant configuration for the desired combination of characteristics and characteristics values by setting up object dependencies.
• Made changes to the Functional Spec’s by raising the CR (change request). Participated in AT (Acceptance Test) and UAT (User Acceptance Test). Worked on client specific custom objects.
• Tested and improved capacity and material availability checks/missing parts processing. Provided end user for implemented work flow. Written test conditions to support end user.

Confidential, Texas City, TX

SAP PP Analyst

Environment: SAP R/3 4.7

Responsibilities:

• Implemented Make to Order Strategy for the company.
• Performed SOP, implemented planning methods such as single-item multilevel, single-item single level generating planned orders.
• Customized resource hierarchy, cost calculation related formulas, resource maintenance
• Created BOM, Master Recipes, converted Planned Orders into either process order or purchase requisitions.
• Trained end users on PP-PI.
• Configured Material Master including defining material types, defining the views required, assigning the number ranges to these material types as per the user requirement for PP.
• Goods receipt posting, goods issue against reservations.
• Created, configure factory calendar and copied Message characteristics between the plants.
• Set up the Organizational structure by creating storage location, purchase organizations and assigning them to the company code and plant.
• Configured planning strategies and requirements type, creation of MRP elements, basic and lead time scheduling, strategy group and strategy group to MRP group assignments, define MRP controllers.